The practical work
Each WebTree project should solve a useful problem in its own right. Together, they give us places to explore how people can coordinate, build trust, and benefit from each other’s work.
First priority · Preparing the first real orders
More people should be able to make things.
Bring together people with a need, a design, equipment, or a useful production skill. Start with local 3D printing and learn from getting real things made.
Early development · Browser CAD prototype
A design can be the beginning of many useful things.
Explore designs that change with a need. We’re building toward parametric models that people can create, adapt, fork, and improve, with a future connection to local production.
Tools used internally · Broader platform in development
Make useful work easier to build on.
Tools for building projects, operating infrastructure, preserving knowledge, and coordinating people and AI. Built from our own needs, with useful parts becoming available to other teams.
Current focus /
First, get the MakeLocal customer-to-delivery loop working in practice. Then connect reusable design and production feedback through 0CAD. Develop shared capabilities where they help that work.
We plan to operate a printing service inside MakeLocal ourselves to learn from quoting, making, delivery, and support. That experience should improve the network.
Adapt a design to a real need.
Combine skills to make it locally.
Bring what happened back to the design.
Feedback informs the next version of the design.
This illustrates the intended relationship. The first MakeLocal orders can use existing designs and manual coordination before this integration exists.
Mentoring explored how mentors could benefit from the longer-term success of the people they help. Its questions remain relevant; it is no longer the identity of WebTree.
Read the mentoring history ↗